This Road I Ride: Sometimes It Takes Losing Everything to Find Yourself

10 best books like This Road I Ride: Sometimes It Takes Losing Everything to Find Yourself (Juliana Buhring): The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs, Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer, Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted, Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery, Lotus, If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path, The Rider, The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand, Epic Bike Rides of the World, The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

Author	Tyler Hamilton
ISBN	0345530411

The Secret Race is a definitive look at the world of professional cycling—and the doping issue surrounding this sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong—by former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle.Over the course of two years, Coyle...

Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer

Author	Lynne Cox
ISBN	0156031302

Now in paperback, with photos and maps added especially for this new edition, here is the acclaimed life story of a woman whose drive and determination inspire everyone she touches.

Lynne Cox started swimming almost as soon as she could walk. By age sixteen, she had broken all records for swimming...

Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted

Author	Kristina Jones
ISBN	0007248075

The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting loyalty and unforgettable courage.

From...

Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery

Author

Christie Aschwanden

In recent years recovery has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks and shakes to compression sleeves, foam rollers, electrical muscle stimulators, and sleep trackers.


In...

Lotus

Author	Lijia Zhang
ISBN	1627795669

Inspired by the secret life of the author’s grandmother, Lotus follows a young woman torn between past traditions and modern desires―as she carves out a life for herself in China’s “City of Sins”

“Standing outside the Moonflower Massage Parlor with three other girls, Lotus...

If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path

Author	Charlotte Kasl
ISBN	0140195831

In this practical, playful, yet spiritual guide, Charlotte Kasl, author of the highly successful Finding Joy: 101 Ways to Free Your Spirit and Dance with Life, shows you what it would be like to have the ancient wisdom of the Buddha to guide you through the dating process. Kasl brings a compassionate...

The Rider

Author	Tim Krabbé
ISBN	1582342903

A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S.
Originally published in the Netherlands in 1978, The Rider became an instant cult classic, selling over 100,000 copies. Brilliantly conceived and written at a breakneck pace, it is a loving, imaginative, and, above all, passionate tribute...

The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand

Author

Anna McNuff

"When I ran, I ran for pleasure. I didn’t run for times, to win, to impress: I ran for me. When I ran my bum cheeks rubbed together, so much so that if I was going on a long run I’d have to ‘lube up’. I maintained that I was not a ‘real’ runner – I just liked to run so that I could eat cake." Anna was never...

Epic Bike Rides of the World

Author	Lonely Planet
ISBN	1760340839

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher


Discover 200 of the best places to ride a bike in this beautifully illustrated hardback. From family-friendly, sightseeing urban rides to epic adventures off the beaten track. Destinations range from France and Italy, for...

The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

Author

Laura Smith

A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and adventure

At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, Laura Smith began to feel trapped. Not by her fiance, who shared her appetite for adventure, but by the unsettling idea that it was hard...

Shut Up, Legs!: My Wild Ride On and Off the Bike

Author	Jens Voigt
ISBN	1623365201

Beloved German cyclist Jens Voigt isn’t a superstar in the traditional sense of the word. Although he won three stages of the Tour De France—and wore the yellow jersey twice—Voigt never claimed an overall victory. He became a star because he embodies qualities that go beyond winning and losing:...

Dare to Do: Taking on the planet by bike and boat

Author	Sarah Outen
ISBN	1857886410

On 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France. her aim was simple: to circle the globe entirely under her own steam - cycling, kayaking and rowing across Europe, Asia, the Pacific, North America, the Atlantic and eventually home. A year later, Sarah...

Bicycle: The Definitive Visual History

Author	DK Publishing
ISBN	1465443932

Bicycle showcases classic and cutting-edge bicycles and traces the evolution of cycling from the nineteenth century to today.

From BMX and mountain biking to track and road racing, this comprehensive full-color guide features the latest high-performance bikes and cycling technology,...

50 Shades of the USA: One Woman's 11,000 Mile Cycling Adventure Through Every State of America

Author	Anna McNuff
ISBN	1999765818

Disillusioned with corporate London life and with no previous experience as a long-distance cyclist, Anna decides to clamber atop a beautiful pink bicycle (named Boudica) and set out on an 11,000-mile journey on her own, through each and every state of the USA.

Dodging floods, blizzards...

Re:cyclists: 200 Years on Two Wheels

Author	Michael Hutchinson
ISBN	1472925599

Somewhere in a German forest 200 years ago, during the darkest, wettest summer for centuries, the story of cycling began. The calls to ban it were more or less instant.

Re:cyclists is the tale of what happened next, of how we have spent two centuries wheeling our way about town and country on bikes--or...

Dark Chapter

Author	Winnie M. Li
ISBN	1785079042

NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager, living a neglected life on the margins of society.

On a bright spring...

Unbroken: One Woman's Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered by Violence. A True Story of Survival and Hope

Author	Madeleine Black
ISBN	1786062763

"For many years after that night, my memories of what happened after he held the blade to my throat and threatened my life were fragmented . . . difficult to piece together. It was too extreme, too violent for me to understand."

Living in a state of shock and self-loathing, it took her years of struggle...

Urban Revolutions: A Woman's Guide to Two-Wheeled Transportation

Author	Emilie Bahr
ISBN	1621069125

Urban Revolutions is a different kind of cycling book. Author Emilie Bahr draws on her own experience as an everyday cyclist and a transportation planner in New Orleans to demystify urban bicycling in this visually-compelling and fun-to-read field guide. What does it mean for a city to be bike-friendly?...